Rosenthal, M.C., Bakir, A.K., and McGann, J.P. (2026). Generalization and extinction learning alters primary sensory input to the brain.
bioRxiv: 2026.02.25.708099.
Preprint.
Bakir, A.K., Gaikwad, A., Clark, K., Rosenthal, M.C., and McGann, J.P. (2026). Generalization of fear learning is shaped by inhibitory sensory processing.
Nature Communications: 17(1):4825.
Rosenthal, M.C., Bakir, A.K., Gaikwad, A.A., Clark, K.L.L., Garcia, A.T., and McGann, J.P. (2026). A method for assessing approach and avoidance behavior across multiple olfactory stimuli in mice including multivariate hypothesis comparisons.
Chemical Senses: 51:bjag018.
Rosenthal, M.C., Bacallao, M.A., Garcia, A.T., and McGann, J.P. (2022). High trait anxiety blocks olfactory plasticity induced by aversive learning.
Biological Psychology: 170:108324.
Reed, D.R., et al. (2021). NIH Workshop Report: Sensory nutrition and disease.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: 113:232–245.
McGann, J.P. (2020). Context is key to olfaction.
Science: 369:514.
Francesconi, J.A., Francesconi, Macaroy, C., Sawant, S., Hamrick, H., Wahab, S., Klein, I., and McGann, J.P. (2020). Sexually dimorphic behavioral and neural responses to a predator scent.
Behavioral Brain Research: 382:112467.
Czarnecki, L.A., Moberly, A.H., Fast, C.D., Turkel, D.J., and McGann, J.P. (2018). Multisensory expectations shape olfactory input to the brain.
bioRxiv: 283242.
Preprint.
Kass, M.D., Czarnecki, L.A., and McGann, J.P. (2018). Stable olfactory sensory neuron in vivo physiology during aging.
Neurobiology of Aging: 69:33–37.
Kass, M.D. and McGann, J.P. (2017). Persistent, generalized hypersensitivity of olfactory bulb interneurons after olfactory fear generalization.
Neurobiology of Learning & Memory: 146:47–57.
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McGann, J.P. (2017). Poor human olfaction is a nineteenth century myth.
Science: 356:597, eaam7263.
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Kass, M.D., Czarnecki, L.A., Moberly, A.H., and McGann, J.P. (2017). Sexually-dimorphic neurophysiology in the olfactory input to the brain in adult mice.
Scientific Reports: 7:45851.
Fast, C.D. and McGann, J.P. (2017). Amygdalar gating of early sensory processing through interactions with locus coeruleus.
Journal of Neuroscience: 37:3085–3101.
McIntyre, J.C., Thiebaud, N., McGann, J.P., Komiyama, T., and Rothermel, M. (2016). Neuromodulation in chemosensory pathways.
Chemical Senses: 42:375–379.
Kass, M.D., Guang, S.A., Moberly, A.H., and McGann, J.P. (2016). Changes in olfactory sensory neuron physiology and olfactory perceptual learning after odorant exposure in adult mice.
Chemical Senses: 41:123–133.
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McGann, J.P. (2015). Associative learning and sensory plasticity: How does it happen and what is it good for?
Learning & Memory: 22:567–576.
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Kass, M.D., Rosenthal, M.C., Pottackal, J., and McGann, J.P. (2013). Fear learning enhances neural responses to threat-predictive sensory stimuli.
Science: 342:1389–1392.
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Kass, M.D., Moberly, A.H., Rosenthal, M.C., Guang, S.A., and McGann, J.P. (2013). Odor-specific, olfactory marker protein-mediated sparsening of primary olfactory input to the brain after odor exposure.
Journal of Neuroscience: 33:6594–6602.
McGann, J.P. (2013). Presynaptic inhibition of olfactory sensory neurons: New mechanisms and potential functions.
Chemical Senses: 38:459–474.
McGann, J.P. (2013). Olfaction: Central Processing.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: Invited second edition, Wiley & Sons.
Kass, M.D., Moberly, A.H., and McGann, J.P. (2013). Spatiotemporal alterations in primary odorant representations in olfactory marker protein knockout mice.
PLoS ONE: 8:e61431.
Cenier, T., McGann, J.P., Tsuno, Y., Verhagen, J., and Wachowiak, M. (2013). Testing the sorption hypothesis in olfaction: A limited role for sniff strength in shaping primary odor representations during behavior.
Journal of Neuroscience: 33:79–92.
Kass, M.D., Pottackal, J., Turkel, D.J., and McGann, J.P. (2013). Changes in the neural representation of odorants after olfactory deprivation in the adult mouse olfactory bulb.
Chemical Senses: 38:77–89.
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Moberly, A.H., Czarnecki, L.A., Pottackal, J., Rubinstein, T., Turkel, D.J., Kass, M.D., and McGann, J.P. (2012). Intranasal exposure to manganese disrupts neurotransmitter release from glutamatergic synapses in the central nervous system in vivo.
NeuroToxicology: 33:996–1004.
Czarnecki, L.A., Moberly, A.H., Turkel, D.J., Rubinstein, T., Pottackal, J., Rosenthal, M.C., McClandish, E.F.K., Buckley, B., and McGann, J.P. (2012). Functional rehabilitation of cadmium-induced neurotoxicity despite persistent peripheral pathophysiology in the olfactory system.
Toxicological Sciences: 126:534–544.
Czarnecki, L.A., Moberly, A.H., Rubinstein, T., Turkel, D.J., Pottackal, J., and McGann, J.P. (2011). In vivo visualization of olfactory pathophysiology induced by intranasal cadmium instillation in mice.
NeuroToxicology: 32:441–449.
Moyer, J.R., Jr., Furtak, S.C., McGann, J.P., and Brown, T.H. (2011). Aging-related changes in calcium binding proteins in rat perirhinal cortex.
Neurobiology of Aging: 32:1693–1706.
McGann, J.P. (2009). Relating the neural representation and perceptual quality of olfactory stimuli.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
McGann, J.P. and Wachowiak, M. (2008). Interglomerular communication in olfactory processing.
Cell Science Reviews: 5:84–92.
McGann, J.P. and Wachowiak, M. (2007). Olfaction: Central processing.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: Invited article, Wiley & Sons.
McGann, J.P., Pirez, N., and Wachowiak, M. (2006). Imaging odor coding and synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain with a genetically-encoded probe.
Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: 664–667.
McGann, J.P., Pirez, N., Gainey, M.A., Muratore, C., Elias, A.S., and Wachowiak, M. (2005). Odorant representations are modulated by feedback but not lateral presynaptic inhibition of olfactory sensory neurons.
Neuron: 48:1039–1053.
Wachowiak, M., McGann, J.P., Heyward, P., Shao, Z., Puche, A.C., and Shipley, M. (2005). Inhibition of olfactory receptor neuron input to olfactory bulb glomeruli mediated by suppression of presynaptic calcium influx.
Journal of Neurophysiology: 94:2700–2712.
Bozza, T., McGann, J.P., Mombaerts, P., and Wachowiak, M. (2004). In vivo imaging of neuronal activity by targeted expression of a genetically encoded probe in the mouse.
Neuron: 42:9–21.
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McGann, J.P. (2003). Late-Spiking Neurons in Perirhinal Cortex and the Timing of Conditioned Fear.
Doctoral dissertation: UMI #AAT 3109432, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University.
McGann, J.P., Moyer, J.R., Jr., and Brown, T.H. (2001). Predominance of late-spiking neurons in layer VI of rat perirhinal cortex.
Journal of Neuroscience: 21:4969–4976.
McGann, J.P. and Brown, T.H. (2000). Fear conditioning model predicts key temporal aspects of conditioned response production.
Psychobiology: 28:303–313.
Beggs, J.M., Moyer, J.R., Jr., McGann, J.P., and Brown, T.H. (2000). Prolonged synaptic integration in perirhinal cortical neurons.
Journal of Neurophysiology: 83:3294–3298.
Tieu, K., Keidel, A.L., McGann, J.P., Faulkner, B., and Brown, T.H. (1999). Perirhinal-amygdala circuit-level computational model of temporal encoding in fear conditioning.
Psychobiology: 27:1–25.
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